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Hilary Ann Lisa Duff |
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5' 4" |
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US - United States of America |
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September 28, 1987 |
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Houston, Texas |
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c/o Curtis Talent management |
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9607 Arby Drive |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90210 |
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10061 Riverside Drive, #1021 |
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Toluca Lake, CA 91602 |
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Hilary Ann Duff was born on September 28th, 1987 in Houston, Texas to Bob and Susan Duff.
Career: Acting
Most of Duff's first few acting roles were small, starting off with an uncredited appearance in Hallmark Entertainment's western miniseries "True Women" (1997). She also served as an extra, again uncredited, in writer and director Willard Carroll's ensemble comedy drama "Playing by Heart" (1998). Her first major part was as the star of the 1998 film "Casper Meets Wendy", playing the young witch Wendy who encounters the animated character Casper.
Duff later appeared in a supporting role in the television movie "The Soul Collector" in 1999, which was based on a Kathleen Kane novel. Duff ended up winning a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress).
Duff's first serious shot at fame came when she was cast as one of the children in the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom "Daddio" (2000). However, before the show had even aired, Duff was dropped from its cast lineup and became reluctant to continue her acting career. Her manager and mother, Susan Duff, spurred her on, and she successfully auditioned for the family comedy show "Lizzie McGuire" a week later.
"Lizzie McGuire", which first aired on the Disney Channel in January 2001, was a ratings hit, drawing in 2.3 million viewers per episode, and became the career breakthrough Duff had been waiting for. After fulfilling her entire sixty-five episode contract, as well as participating in a film spin-off entitled "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" (2003), Disney toyed with the idea of continuing the franchise in further movies and a prime-time television series to be broadcast on ABC, but Duff refused the proposal.
Duff's second role in a theatrical motion picture was in "Human Nature", an independent film first shown at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals. Written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry, the film follows a female naturalist, played by Patricia Arquette, who has body hair growing all over her body. Duff played the younger version of Arquette's character.
She starred in the Disney Channel television film "Cadet Kelly" (2002) with Christy Carlson Romano and Gary Cole, which became the network's most watched program in its nineteen-year history. Her first major role in a feature film was in "Agent Cody Banks" with Frankie Muniz in 2003. It was successful enough to spawn a sequel, proving that Duff's popularity was not limited to the small screen. After the commercially successful "The Lizzie McGuire Movie", she played one of the twelve children of Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt in the family film "Cheaper by the Dozen", which remains her most widely seen film appearance.
In 2004, Duff starred in the romantic comedy "A Cinderella Story", a twenty-first century update of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Cinderella. The film became a moderate box office hit, and some critics were impressed by Duff's performance, as well as her chemistry with co-star Chad Michael Murray. Later that year, she starred in the romance film "Raise Your Voice". While some critics praised Duff for appearing in a more dramatic role than she had previously been seen in, the film was heavily panned.
In Duff's next film, "The Perfect Man" (2005), she played the eldest daughter of a divorced woman (Heather Locklear) who moves to New York City as she desperately searches for a good man to settle down with. Reviews were uniformly negative, and it was a commercial failure. Later that year, she reprised her role of Lorraine Baker in comedy sequel "Cheaper by the Dozen 2". It failed to repeat the financial success of the original film, and was panned by critics. Duff would later go on to be nominated for a 2005 Worst Actress Razzie for these two roles.
In 2004 she appeared in "A Cinderella Story" with a salary of $2 million, and in Raise Your Voice. Duff's first recorded singing performance was on the song "I Can't Wait", which appeared on the Lizzie McGuire Original Television Soundtrack in 2002. Her first album was a 2002 collection of Christmas songs called Santa Claus Lane.
Career: Singing
After seeing her sister perform in a band, Duff decided that she wanted to try music too. Her first recorded singing performance was on the song "I Can't Wait", which appeared on the original television soundtrack for "Lizzie McGuire" in August 2002. The following month, the first "Disneymania" compilation album was released, featuring Duff in the song "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room". Her first album was the collection of Christmas songs entitled Santa Claus Lane (2002), which included duets with Lil' Romeo and Christina Milian. Released in October, it made the lower reaches of the Billboard 200 album chart and number three on the kids' music chart, and eventually achieved gold certification. The title track was also included on the soundtrack to "The Santa Clause 2."
Duff also sang on several tracks on the soundtrack to "The Lizzie McGuire Movie". One of these tracks, "Why Not", which is performed by Duff in the film, was released as a single, and reached the top twenty on singles charts in countries including Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. That year, she recorded her first non-holiday album, entitled "Metamorphosis" (2003), went to number one on the U.S. and Canadian charts in that year.
"Metamorphosis" became the eighth-highest selling album of the year, with over 2.4 million copies purchased in its first four months of release in the US alone; it has since gone to sell over 3.7 million copies. "Metamorphosis" was also nominated in Canada's Juno Awards for International Album of the Year in 2004.
In January 2004, the second "Disneymania" disc was released, and contained Duff's last recording for Disney, "The Siamese Cat Song", recorded with her sister Haylie. Another song, "Circle of Life", included Duff and other Disney Channel Stars. Duff and her sister also recorded a cover of The Go-Gos' "Our Lips Are Sealed" for the soundtrack to A Cinderella Story.
On September 28, 2004 (her seventeenth birthday), she released her second album, the self-titled "Hilary Duff"; it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and number one in Canada.
Duff's third official album, "Most Wanted" (2005), consisted of her personal favorite songs alongside three new tracks. Duff enlisted help from boyfriend Joel Madden to make her three new tracks edgier and more rock, and listened to music by artists such as The Killers and Muse for inspiration. Lead single "Wake Up" became her highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 and her highest peaking single in the U.S. The album itself debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling near 208,000 copies in its first week of release. "Most Wanted" also became her third number one debut in Canada, and is nominated for the Juno Award for International Album of the Year.
Relationships
Duff is currently dating Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden. She finally cleared up all the rumors in June 2005 by admitting they were dating, and had been seeing each other since she was sixteen and he was twenty-four. The rumour began when they were seen together in Toronto for the 2004 MuchMusic Video Awards. Before that, she was dating singer Aaron Carter.
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